The domination of minimum intervention : juvenile justice practice in England and Wales during the 1980s

Abstract

Minimum intervention supporters predominantly question the value of the criminal justice system.  Therefore, within a policy climate which highlights the importance of providing criminal policy answers rather than simply raising questions, the minimum intervention philosophy is highly vulnerable.  However, the dissertation demonstrates that the minimum intervention philosophy can be critical for the improvement of the criminal justice process.  This hidden aspect of minimum intervention is revealed from the analysis of the 1980s juvenile justice.

The reduction in the use of custody for juvenile offenders during the 1980s constitutes an important statistical fact which was left unexamined.  The dissertation attempts to undertake a deeper examination from the perspective of the 1980s juvenile justice practice.  The study demonstrates the existence of important trends directly associated with the performance of the practice level.  The present work argues further, that the minimum intervention philosophy was at the heart of this era of change.

Chapter two reviews juvenile statistics from 1980 to 1990 and determines the existence of a transformation in the direction the 1980s juvenile justice.  Chapter three considers the academic influence as this constitutes a significant part of the history of the 1980s juvenile justice.  Chapter four unearths the existence of significant developments in the quality and the content of practitioners’ professional performance during the 1980s.  Chapter five examines the contribution of the influential academic group as well as the contribution of the so-called ‘national network’ to these developments.  Chapter six argues that the cycle of practice development was the critical process behind the emergence of a new practice working philosophy.  Chapter seven argues about the emergence of minimum intervention at the practice level and demonstrates its critical connection to the developments in practice working philosophy.  Chapter eight questions the view of academic leadership behind the domination of minimum interventions; and highlights the need to look at the higher level of the criminal policy logic/agenda/rhetoric, during the 1980s.

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